“Usyk is weak to the body” has become the new…

His commitment to the body is insane. I've never seen any HW target the body so relentlessly as the Kab Man went to Zhang's body. There's no one that can stand up to that sort of sustained approach, and that includes Usyk if he can't neutralise Kabs.

 

It's not exactly a myth, but the way some people (anti-Usyk) have run with it is certainly making a bigger deal of it than it is.

I actually think I was one of the first people to really talk about Usyk's potential weakness to the body on here, and I'm a massive Usyk fan. My point was that out of all the potential areas to target if you wanted to beat Usyk the midsection was probably your best bet. It's not an opinion without merit. Of the only real times I've seen Usyk hurt amateur and pro they almost all came from shots to the body: Beterbiev, Nistor, Gassiev, Joshua. I might be missing one or two out.

So he's not weak to the body (or he would have been stopped or dropped more often by now), but he's not as strong there as he is to the chin or to sustained assaults or whathaveyou.

 

Also, just to play the devil's advocate—Usyk could be said to be a little bit more visibly impacted by clean body shots, because Soviet style moves the entire body mass around more with the pendulum step and whatnot. Getting nailed like that is much more of an impactful collision than a flat-footed fighter deflecting or smothering some of that power with upper-body movement.

 

This.

 

I can’t think of anyone who will survive a sustained body attack. Who comes to mind? Ihow easy would it be to sustain a body attack against usyk?

 

Ali.

 

I in no way blame usyk to be a bit soft to the body since he has other very strong attributes and nobody is perfect from every perspective .
But i question a bit his dramatic limping or body shaking since if at all in both cases the hits were only marginally low , normally not complained . It seems this is an actor strategy to force a low blow by the referee to hide he is badly hurt by a body shot - and he buys time to recover with this actor style .

 

kabayel is willing everytime and everywhere but usyk will avoid him until retirement .

For usyk , fighting kabayel is like licking the balls of a tiger . The fun is limited but the risk is very high .

In such a scenario usyk needs to disengage kabayel quickly . Should that fail kabayel will disengage usyk with his liver treatment .

 

Well I hope we see it, but I think Fury is next, or maybe Parker
i would be be fine with Parker next as he deserves a shot

 

Even Ali was heard to scream in pain by a body shot by Holmes in their fight as he laid on the ropes

 

You really want to bring the Holmes fight as an example?

 

I think he can be hurt to the body but more than most other heavyweights?

Doubt it.